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But what Raisi lacked in charisma, he more than made up for in subservience; the man, frankly, was a toady doing the supreme leader’s bidding.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

But Alice’s complaints aren’t just about her million sitting in the bank and the toady outgrowths of fame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

Cruella, meanwhile, is never truly pitted against anyone more honorable than a sneering toady.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2021

To a long list of professional milestones, Barr is adding toady, minion and yes man.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2019

But I would probably need the toady sailor to help me.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

The heads of those places have been fired or have stepped down, sometimes replaced by crypto industry toadies.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025

Because that statement on top of his refusal to bring back Kilmer Abrego Garcia has me truly scared of what he and his toadies will do.”

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025

So how will the "usual suspects", the "softies", the "newbies" and the "toadies" shake down?

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2025

And today’s toadies, worshipers and opportunists may have some explaining to do to their descendants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

Then Rodgers will lay down his Daily News and sneer, "What has aggravated the toadies of the Dukes to-day?"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 by Various

To keep Uganda economically afloat, Amin has toadied to oil-rich Arab states in return for financial aid; this could explain his fanatical anti-Israeli policy.

From Time Magazine Archive

He toadied to his superiors, fought with his peers, and would never give credit to his juniors when he could claim it for himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

Edouard gave Edouard a leg up into the Chamber of Deputies in 1919, and fora time Edouard toadied to Edouard in return.

From Time Magazine Archive

We toadied shamefully to the owner of Bull’s Eye Joe, who, we understood, had been the sole protection of a frontier state. 

From Books and Bookmen by Maclaren, Ian

“Is that so, Miss Smartie!” exclaimed Cora Rathmore, standing up for the girl she toadied to.

From A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall by Marlowe, Amy Bell

And Abby Quinn is excellent as Natalie, mom’s campaign manager and toadying child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

But his comments during his interview with Hannity suggest that the toadying and servility Pence engaged in nearly every day as Trump’s vice president are difficult to shake.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2021

Forgive us, O Premeer League, for this dreadful toadying and barefaced flattery.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2020

Benchley shared screenwriting credit with Carl Gottlieb, who also plays the toadying publisher of the Amity newspaper.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2020

There is always to be found men who swell their importance by toadying men of character and eminence.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry